Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Other Islamic authority or family context Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom · 2026

United Kingdom: agency worker jailed 16 years for raping and abusing boys he groomed at a Birmingham mosque

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Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

IT support worker embedded inside the mosque, trusted adult figure ('like a big brother') to boys at the mosque

Organization

Unnamed Birmingham mosque (name withheld for legal reasons)

Archive classification

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Daauud worked as an agency IT support worker at a Birmingham mosque until February 2022, using that embedded position to identify and groom five boys as young as nine, abusing the trust the mosque community placed in him as an adult inside their place of worship.

Institutional obedience or isolation
Other spiritual authority or belief

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2026-02-06 · conviction and sentence

Birmingham Crown Court, England. Found guilty of one count of rape, nine counts of sexual assault and seven counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. Sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment with a 5-year extended licence period.

Documented coercion mechanisms

grooming with gifts (sweets, AirPods, computer games, phones) to build trust and secrecy
access to boys as young as nine secured through his role inside the mosque
exploitation of the mosque as a site presumed safe by parents

Cited record

Sources

official police record criminal disposition West Midlands Police, 'Man jailed for 16 years for campaign of rape and sexual abuse against children' (Feb. 2026).: Official police release confirming the Birmingham Crown Court sentence, offences, and mosque context.
regional newspaper court reporting nexus detail Express & Star, '"He betrayed my truest — he was a friend, like a big brother" — agency worker at a Birmingham mosque who sexually abused boys is jailed' (Feb. 10, 2026).: Regional press report with victim impact statement and grooming detail (gifts, trust-building) confirming the mosque-embedded access mechanism.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2026/february/man-jailed-for-16-years-for-campaign-of-rape-and-sexual-abuse-against-children/ Corpus classification: official-police-record; evidentiary role: criminal-disposition.
Retrieval: 2026-07-27 · Retrieval failed; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2026/02/10/he-betrayed-my-truest-he-was-a-friend-like-a-big-brother-agency-worker-at-a-birmingham-mosque-who-sexually-abused-boys-is-jailed/ Corpus classification: regional-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: nexus-detail. SHA-256 7e8a195f38a527caff16d2c5d3c3370ddcccb5fb57d59775c976629e9399af29
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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